The Korea Times has a feature on Yoon Jay-joon (Jay Yoon), CEO of Sundosoft, a large GIS player in the country. One of the graphics is of a box of ArcGIS 9. I guess 10 is not yet out there.
- Korea Times
Panasonic's new GPS enabled cameras may not work quite right in China. How and exactly why is not clear, but apparently geotagging is illegal in that country.
- GPS Tracklog
Mackenzie District Council in New Zealand is fight against bad GIS data.
"During the last revaluation, it was discovered the information we sent to our valuers was incorrect. This was due to multiple users creating different copies of the data, manipulating the information and treating it as correct," Mr Morris said.
"If council chose to do nothing, the GIS information will get progressively worse.
But the local government does not want to put a dedicated outside person in charge of cleaning up the data. Instead, it's looking into a shared position.
- Stuff.co.nz
The Doolin Coast Guard team in Co Clare Ireland will be the only such unit in the country with a GIS. It'll be run on tablets to increase efficiency in response and planning.
The system also contains up to date information on the locations of caves, popular surfing spots and other areas where the team might be requested to respond to an incident.
It will also aid in incident planning as it contains information such as radio reception blackspots, access routes and helicopter landing sites.
- Clare Herald
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/08 at 03:00 AM |
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Europe
A European network [EGNOS] to complement signals sent by the U.S. GPS satellite navigation constellation was declared certified March 2 for use by European civil-aviation authorities, giving Europe’s satellite navigation managers a welcome respite from their system’s ongoing financial trials.
- Space News
Sudan
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has released new satellite imagery confirming the intentional burning of a third village, Tajalei, in Sudan’s Abyei region, in addition to the deliberate destruction since March 2 of the villages of Maker Abior and Todach.
At least 300 buildings at Tajalei were intentionally destroyed by fire, according to Satellite Sentinel Project analysis of the DigitalGlobe satellite image, taken March 6 and analyzed by UNITAR/UNOSAT and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, with additional analysis by DigitalGlobe.
Korea
North Korea used jamming equipment to block South Korean military communication devices last week, a report said Sunday, amid high tension over the joint drills between Seoul and Washington.
Now South Korea says that action broke international law.
Nigeria
At least, there are 1,194,525 houses in Lagos State, South West Nigeria housing the over 17 million population, the Lagos State Geographic Information System, GIS has revealed.
The governor said the GIS was the first in Nigeria and third in Africa behind South Africa and Kenya and includes "all industries and factories, roads, individual houses, among others." Orion Technologies did the work which includes imagery accurate to 11 millimeters.
- PM News NIgeria
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/08 at 05:11 AM |
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